Jim Morrison Bust who happened to be found during the search for police – 37 years after it was stolen from Singer’s grave

The French police happened to have recovered the long -lost bust of the American singer Jim Morrison That once decorated the grave of the iconic frontman of the doors, 37 years after it was stolen from a cemetery in Paris.

The statue, which misses since 1988, was found during a search bound to a fraud case led by the Paris Public Procuror’s Office, a source close to the research to AFP.

Nostalgic rock fans are still coming to Morrison’s grave on the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, where he was buried after his death in the French capital in 1971 at the age of 27 -at the age of 27.

Sculpture, by the Croatian artist Mikulin, was placed in the grave on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the death of Morrison.

It was found by the financial and anti-corruption brigade of the legal police of the police.

Morrison’s Grave – in an area that is known as Poet’s Corner -Is perhaps the world’s most visited resting place of a musician. In 1991, on the 20th anniversary of the singer’s death, a riot broke out on his grave, the BBC reportedForcing the cemetery to hire extra security.

After that, a guard was “permanently stationed on Morrison’s grave, but messages continue to appear on surrounding graves,” The New York Times reported in 1993.

The exact circumstances of the singer’s death are still dressed in mystery, with the most early stories that say he died of cardiac arrest in his bathtub.

A French journalist, Sam Bernett, claimed in a book from 2007 that good friends and family spun the official version of Morrison’s death to remediate his reputation.

Bernett said that Morrison actually died of an overdose of heroin on the toilet of a nightclub that the journalist owned at the time, the “Rock” Roll Circus “on the left bank of Paris.

The doors, founded in Los Angeles, were among the most influential rock groups of the late 1960s and early 70s and a supporting pillar of the counterculture at that time.

Their hits are “Riders on the Storm”, “Light My Fire” and “The End”, a spooky song that is prominent in Francis Ford Coppolas from 1979 Vietnam War film “Apocalypse Now”.

In February Paris called a bridge after the iconic singer, just a stone’s throw from the Boheemian Marais district where he last lived.